kurimanzutto, New York

On view: November 6, 2025 – December 19, 2025
Opening: November 6, 6-8 pm

Midnite Porridge is the first exhibition at kurimanzutto dedicated to Ming Fay, the Shanghai-born, New York-based artist whose work transforms the organic world into a sculptural language of scale, imagination, and cultural resonance.

Across five decades, Fay molded, sketched, and painted fruits, roots, vegetables, bones, shells, and seeds into both familiar and hybrid forms, sometimes faithful to nature, other times drawn from a dreamlike botany. Playful yet monumental, his works evoke fantasies of growth, nourishment, and abundance.

Midnite Porridge takes its title from Fay’s self-published artist book, a collection of sketches, aphorisms, and reflections on the connection between art, nature, and well-being. Within its pages, plants transform into human-like figures performing quiet gestures of tai chi, accompanied by rhythmic notations and meditations on breath.

Among the large-scale works on view, pears symbolizing prosperity, ginseng invoking vitality, peppers suggesting passion, and lychees recalling fleeting beauty, Fay examines the layered meanings of organic forms across cultures. His sculptures honor nature while celebrating the diasporic networks that sustain it, from Chinatown fruit vendors to urban gardens.